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Melody_Servello
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2 days ago

Revisiting a Slide Functionality

I have a request that I believe cannot be accomplished, but I want to poll the group and see if there's a way to trigger the slide to know it's being revisited and behave somewhat differently. Here's a verbatim copy of the request I received, and my actions/comment in italics.

  1. Design/functionality comment: Please remove the No Next verbiage and grey out Next until all interactions have been selected.
    • to do this, I removed the no next (verbiage) layer then added an object trigger to set the state of Next Button to Normal when the state of all of the ovals is Visited.  The result is the next button is greyed out until the learner clicks each button. So that works as desired.
  2. Design/Functionality comment: Please have slide reset to initial state upon revisiting (but leave Next available)
    • this is the one I am going to tell her no on since I don't believe you can have it both ways. If it's reset to initial state, then logically, the next button is back to disabled. If she wants them to be able to revisit AND move freely, then it cannot be reset to initial state.

Is my comment on number 2 correct? Or is there a way to return to initial state but also ignore the object trigger I made (in #1 above) when revisiting?

 

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  • JudyNollet's avatar
    JudyNollet
    Super Hero
    2 days ago

    It is possible to reset a slide and keep the Next button enabled. Since resetting the slide means the buttons won't be in the Visited state when the user returns, use a T/F variable to track that the interaction has been done. The value of a variable won't change when a slide is reset (unless there's a trigger that changes it.) 

    • Create a T/F variable with the default value of False. 
    • Add a trigger that changes the value to True when the interaction is done. In other words, use the same "when" as the trigger that changes Next to Normal. 
    • On the trigger that changes Next to Disabled when the timeline starts on the slide, add a condition so the action only happens if the variable = False. That would look something like this:

    Note: You could add an Else statement to that trigger to change Next to Normal. That shouldn't be needed, but it couldn't hurt. 

    BTW, a “when timeline starts” triggers runs every time the user reaches the slide. That's true whether the Slide Properties are set to "Reset to initial state" or to “Resume saved state.”

    For reference: TIP: Controlling the NEXT Button 101 | Articulate - Community